Through East Anglia in a Motor CarVincent, James Edmund
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Through East Anglia in a Motor Car
Vincent, James Edmund
Norfolk (England) -- Description and travel; Suffolk (England) -- Description and travel
Now comes a confusing passage in the usually sinless "Murray," wherein the
author is himself quoting in part from the _Quarterly Review, No. 108_:
"Sixteen years later, 'to overawe the disaffected, and to show to the more
submissive an image of Roman civilization,' a Roman Colony was founded in
the capital of the conquered Trinobantes. 'It was dignified with the name
of Claudian, from the Emperor himself, or Victricensis, from the conquest
of which it was the symbol, which was also typified by a statue of Victory,
erected in its principal place.' The place received indiscriminately the
name of Colonia, Camulodunum,--or sometimes Colonia Camulodunum. It was the
first Roman Colony founded in Britain. 'Claudius determined to inform the
minds of his remotest subjects on the article of his own divinity--and
accordingly directed the Colonists of Camulodunum to consecrate to him a
temple, and appoint from among themselves an order of priests to minister
therein.'" Nothing could be more in this picture, nothing more thoroughly
in harmony with the character of Claudius; but the words "sixteen years
later" give pause. Sixteen years would bring us to A.D. 60, when Nero wore
the purple and misbehaved himself generally; and six years before that
Agrippina, who was already more than wife to Claudius, since she was his
niece also, became his murderess by the aid of the physician Xenophon. But
it is only the date that is wrong. It was in the year 50, six years later,
not sixteen, that the successor of Plautius, having been many times
worsted by the hard-fighting Silures of South Wales, was ordered to found a
colony at Camulodunum.
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